What to see in America . lcenter of the state, and it has excelled in the developmentof railway and general transportation enterprises. St. Pauland INIinneapolis are so near each other and have grown withsuch similar rapidity that they are called the Tw^in Cities.*The State Capitol cost four and one half million dollars andis embellished with works of art by some of the most notedAmerican sculptors, painters, and decorators. In the bluffsrising from the river are many caves which are used for coldstorage purposes, or in which are grown mushrooms. Themushroom industry is one in which St. Paul l
What to see in America . lcenter of the state, and it has excelled in the developmentof railway and general transportation enterprises. St. Pauland INIinneapolis are so near each other and have grown withsuch similar rapidity that they are called the Tw^in Cities.*The State Capitol cost four and one half million dollars andis embellished with works of art by some of the most notedAmerican sculptors, painters, and decorators. In the bluffsrising from the river are many caves which are used for coldstorage purposes, or in which are grown mushrooms. Themushroom industry is one in which St. Paul leads the coun-try. Somewhat eastof St. Pauls busi-ness center is IndianMounds Park. Herewere originally sixteenmounds, but archseol-ogists in their eager-ness to investigatehave reduced the num-ber to six. About amile to the south isthe oddly named PigsEye Lake. The beauty of Lake-wood Cemetery, bor-dering two lakes on theoutskirts of Minneap-olis, can scarcely beexcelled. The mostdelightful resort in the Likm^ili, 264 What to See in America region around the Twin Cities is Lake Minnetonka, fifteenmiles west of Minneapolis. The lake is singularly irregularin outline, and while its length is not much over a dozenmiles it has a shore line of nearly one hundred and fifty , miles. Its outlet isMinnehaha Creek,which flows easterlythrough a romanticvalley to the Missis-sippi. Within half amile of the greatriver it makes a sud-den descent of sixtyfeet in the gracefulFalls of Minnehaha,immortalized inLongfellows poem,Hiawatha. Thevicinity of the fallsis a favorite for thepeople of the neigh-boring cities, anddraws thither thou-sands of pilgrims from a distance every year. Minnesota contains the summit of the central tablelandof the continent. Here, within a few miles of each other,are the sources of rivers which find outlets in Hudson Bay,the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Gulf of Mexico. Thefirst attempt to discover the source of the Mississippi wasmade by an expedition led by L
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